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Decor
Chosen
For Gym
By GREG BASSETT
The athletic department has decided
on the colors for the floor of the new
gymnasium. The ends of the center
court, which will be used for varsity
games, will be painted dark blue with
Chowan painted on the ends in white
letters.
According to buildings and grounds
superintendent, Jack Hassell, the dark
blue was chosen over Columbia blue
because the lighter blue has been
known to fade and “yellow” with age.
The exact scheme of the center jump
circle has yet to be determined, Hassell
said, but he affirmed the center court
would be marked soley for basketball.
The varsity volleyball court will
feature lines of Columbia blue and the
intramural volleyball court will have
white markings. The boundaries for
badminton will be marked in yellow.
Hassell also noted that the bleachers,
t)eing installed by college employees
under the supervision of factory
representatives were very near
completion. He said the factory
representatives had been “shocked”
that the bleachers could be put together
so fast by inexperienced installers. The
use of college employees will help
reduce the gym’s budget
Also, the main gym and mini-gym’s
wood floors have been laid the three
electronic game clocks have been in
stalled, the basket ball goals are in
place, and there is now water in the
pool.
Hassell reminded, however, that
there is still much work to be done
before the complex can officially open
later this Spring.
Faculty
Ties (?)
Students
By GREG BASSETT
When the dust had settled and the
annual Faculty-Student basketball
game was over Tuesday night, March
18, both teams were tied 47-all despite
having played a two-minute overtime
when the game ended 45-45 in
regulation.
The eager student team, lead by the
berolcs ot David “Lurch” Leman and
Norman Marsh had a tough outing
against Coach Scott Colclough’s aging
but determined educators. With oc
casional help from Clifton “Fasthand”
Collins, who happened to be operating
the scoreboard and time clock, the
faculty managed to stay close with
intriging “five-point plays” and “catch
up points.”
Faculty standouts Doug Gatewood
and James “Earl the Pearl” Dilday
fffovided their associates with con-
sistant point scoring. Surprising
buckets by Warren Sexton, Carl Sim
mons and Scott Colclough also helped
the faculty team along the way.
For the students, the “Salt and
Pepper Duo” of SGA President Mike
Burke and Smoke Signals editor Harry
“Bookstore Shoes” Pickett, teamed up
for their famous “slow break” and
added to the excitement. Pickett sunk
one lucky basket from near mid-court
and threw in a few others.
Warren Sexton, under pressure, tied
the game on a foulshot with just one
second left in the overtime. The
students managed to call a time out
with just “one-half” second left, but it
wasn’t enough time to pull out a vic
tory.
The faculty had their own
cheerleading squad in attendence
composed of Mrs. Betty “Give Me An
N” Batchelor, Mrs. Esther Whitaker
and Mrs. Marcela Buffaloe, The
cheerleaders not only cheered the
faculty on to a tie, but they were
periodically called onto the floor to
shoot various “technical” fouls. Their
baskets, or near misses, were
sometimes worth two points just for
effort.
The student team was coached by
Johnny Johnson and Haywood Evans.
It featured the talents of Freddie
“Which Basket?” Glover, Rory “Dr.
Doom” Gibson, Charles Williams,
Mark Delano, Randy Stogner and Chris
Miller.
The faculty team was composed of
faculty favorites like Coach Jerrj'
Smith, Roy “Slam Dunk” Winslow,
Wesley Shrewsbury, Coach Janet
Collins, Dan Surface, James B.
Graham, Mike Britt, Bob Lumpkins,
Lynn Carter, R. Hugh Middleton and
James Chamblee.
Proceeds from the game went to the
Day Students Scholarship Fund.
Payments Wrong
WASHINGTON, DC (CPS)-More
than half the Basic Educational Op
portunity Grants (BEOGs) given out in
1978-79 were awarded in the wrong
amount to students. A. U. S. Dept, of
Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)
report has found that 55 percent of the
awards were either overpaid or un
derpaid, and that the major reason was
that the EOG application forms were so
complicated.
1980 DIAMOND SQUAD — Front row, left to right, Richard Goodwin, Sam
Kayea, Keith Atwell, Dale Horn, Woody McDaniels, Dean Barrow, Fran
Fitzgerald, Mike Duley; middle row, Donald Winters, Mike Cook, Mark
Disharoon, Mike Thomas, Clint Biggs, Chris Didlake, Lynn Carter,
Dwayne Pridgen, Manager Don Newsome: rear row. Coach Jerry
Hawkins, Rory Davis, Stephen Cooke, Freddie Dovis, Flloyd Fortune,
Lewis Worren, Eric McDaniels, Marvin Hunter, David Bowen, Dwight
Mangum, Manager Wesley Carter and Assistant Coach Dwight Collier,
(Photo by Nancy Thierry)
Silent Bats,
Leaky Mitts
Sink Braves
By DEAN LOWMAN
Errors, both mental and physical,
coupled with a lack of timely hitting
have plagued Chowan’s baseballers
throughout the early part of this season
as they have struggled to a 3-6 mark.
The Braves opened their season with
a doubleheader loss to Frederick, 4-2
and 4-0 as they could only muster eight
hits in both games combined. Fran
Fitzgerald led the slim Chowan attack
by going 2-for-3 in both conests while
Chris Didlake fought off control
jroblems to whiff ten batters in the
opener. Frederick took advantage of
two crucial Brave errors to overcome a
2-1 deficit in the top of the seventh of the
first contest while limiting Chowan to
only three hits and no runners past
second in the nightcap.
The Braves next hosted defending
national champion Hagerstown CC and
fell victim to their own mental mistakes
in losing, 8-5. Starter Rory Davis gave
up seven hits and four walks in only
four and 2-3 innings as Hagerstown
rocked him for six runs. Fitzgerald and
Eric McDaniels had two hits apiece
while Dean Barrow added a solo homer
for the Braves. The visitors were led by
Mike Starliper’s two hits along with
desgnated hitter Mike Knight’s two-run
shot over the centerfield.
Chowan fared better in its double
lieader at Newport News, splitting the
pair 7-4 and 4-9. Donald Winters won the
opener behind errorless support from
his Murfreesboro teammates. Woody
McDaniels, Freddie Davis, and Lewis
Warren each homered while Fitzgerald
added two baseraps to form the Chowan
attack in the first contest. The tide
turned in the latter contest, however, as
the Shipbuilders mixed five hits with
eight walks to score nine runs.
A switeh to conference action proved
effective for the Braves’ spirits as they
swept a twinbill from the Trojans of Mt.
Olive, 11-2 and 2-0. The opener was
highlighted by a 7-run, third inning
outburst by the Braves. Chowan’s
fourteen hit attack was engineered by
the three baseraps of Lewis Warren and
Eric McDaniels and the eight strikeout
pitehing of Chris Didlake. The second
game was closer as the Braves’
managed to push across two unearned
runs in the second inning on singles by
Barrow and Woody McDaniels. Marvin
Hunter struck out eight while allowing
just two hits for the winners.
Chowan once again tasted the agony
of defeat last Tuesday as they lost a
pair of games to Newport News Ap
prentice, 4-2 and 6-4. The Shipbuilders
edged across three unearned runs in the
opener to hang a loss on Braves’ starter
Lynn Carter. Mike Cook homered while
Dean Barrow added two hits for the
losers in the opening contest. The
nightcap saw Newport News take
advantage of Chowan miscues to score
five unearned runs and drop the Braves
to 3-6.
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Dean Barrow slides in for a score against Hagerstown as
Lewis Waren watches the play.
(Photo by Bill Williamson)
Royce
Randy Murphy volleys in tennis
teonn warmup.
“I think I owe something to the men
who I saw sacrifice time, energy and
money,” he offered. “And I feel I’m
paying a debt back to them.”
For the last two years, Royce’s boys
and members of the West Chowan
Baptist Association have won the state
diampionships held on the campus of
Campbell College in track. The track
men compete against 25 other
associations.
The church and public schools are
very important to the small man with
the giant heart. He is a member of the
Murfreesboro Baptist Church and has
served as past president of the Parent
Teacher-Student Organization here in
Hertford County. Royce is now
chairman of the Parents Advisory
Council at Murfreesboro High School.
“I think we should support our public
school,” Royce said leaning forward
and voice bearing emphasis. “The
mixing of the races and the way they
get along means so much to the
relations.
“For me and my family we like the
public school approach.” He said,
however, that many of his friends have
their children in Ridgecroft and other
private schools. “I can see that there is
room for both.”
Royce and his wife Rosemary residen
in Murfreesboro with son Jon and
daughter Karen. Both children are
enrolled in the public schools, Jon a
junior at Murfreesboro High and Karen
an eighth grader at Murfreesboro
Middle.
Youth
Growing up in Florida, young Royce
was a sports enthusiast. He and his
young friends formed many tag football
teams in the tall St. Petersburg grass,
where young Royce played scatback.
Later as an 11-year-old centerfielder
in 1948 on the Johnston Florist Little
League team, Royce was a second
alternate on the team which finished
runner-up in the Little League World
Series in Williamsport, Penn. “I was
two boys away from making a trip of a
little Leaguer’s dream.”
As a Little League centerfielder,
Royce idolized Yankee greats Micky
Mantle and Yogi Berra. When the
Yankees pulled into the St. Petersburg
in early March for spring training,
Royce and all his friends would climb
fences and bleachers to get a glance at
the perennial champions.
“Idolized the Yankees because they
trained on the field next to the Little
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League fields,” He laughed. “And I
used to deliver the St. Petersburg
Times Paper to Berra’s rented home.”
AS ne got older, young Mr. Royce
started taking his interests toward
journalism and track. As a senior on St.
Petersburg High School’s track team,
Royce’s long jump of 20 feet, six inches
placed fourth and gave his team the two
points it to^ to claim the Florida state
title. The tracksters won by one and
three-quarters points. “I weighed 125
pounds.”
News pa per Reporter
When Phil was a junior in high school,
he became editor of the CSiurch Youth
newspaper at his church. “I just loved
to write articles for the paper,” he
chuckled. As a senior, he was selected
as a sports reporter on the school
newspaper and because of previous
experience, became a writer for The
Trojan, St. Petersburg’s Junior College
newspaper.
At Florida State University, Royce
majcred in journalism and public
relations and was a member of the
Flambeau, the school’s weekly. His two
fcRidest memories as the paper’s sports
and feature writer were interviewing
Linus Pauling, a Nobel Peace Prize
winner, and covering the first two-point
conversion ever in football.
“Pauling was the best celebrity I
interviewed at Florida State and
probably the greatest or best-known
celebrity I ever interviewed,” Royce
boasted. “He had a lot to say about
politics, but I think he got the prize in
physics.”
In 1959 when the two-point conversion
was legalized, Florida State played the
first game of the season. “It happened
early September on a Friday night.
They (the Seminoles) got a jump on
everyone else.”
Working in the office of sports in
formation with S.I.D. Pat Hogan, now
Florida State’s vice-president of
university relations, gave Royce his
first taste of public relations work. “I
felt like I’d iike to do public relations, so
I enjoyed working in sports in
formation.
“I was a sports correspondent, also,”
he remembered. “I covered sports for
the St. Petersburg Times while I was at
Florida State.”
On the Road to Chowan
After graduation from Florida State,
Royce felt a calling for Christian
education, and thus trekked to
Southeastern Seminary in Wake
Forest, NC, where he was a student
director of the news bureau under the
tutelege of director Dr. Ben Fisher, now
a member of Chowan’s Board of Ad
visors. There he received his bachelor
of divinity degree.
Four years in Pensacola, Fla. as a
minister of education at the First
Baptist Church of Oestview, and
another three as the campus minister
at Troy State University in Troy, Ala.
helped to mature Royce, but he wasn’t
totally satisfied. He felt a strong urge to
pursue his college major of journalism-
public relations in 1969.
“While I’m at Troy State (spring of
1969) I received an invitation from
Chowan’s director of development,
Virgil McBrkle, who was a classmate at
Southeastern,” Royce remembered.
“This led to the president offering me
the job.
“My first day of employment was
AprU Fool’s Day, 1969.”
Today Royce celebrates his twelfth
anniversary as the director of college
relations. He’s given the tj^ of
publicity to CHiowan athletes which has
enabled them to receive All-America
status; publicized tjie building of Carrie
Savage Camp Science building in the
early 70’s, and now has released
statewide publicity rf Oiowan’s $2.5
million gymnasium, vhich he calls
“exciting.”
Passing Royce on the campus, one
may not recognize the 135-pounder, but
it’s a sure bet he won’t ask: “Do you
know me?”
Johnson,
Barnes
All-ETC
By HARRY PICKETT
LOUISBURG—Two Chowan cagers
have been named to the All-Eastern
Tarhsel Conference basketball teams
for the 1979-80 roundball campaign.
Johnny Johnson, a 6-7 forward for
Coach Jerry Smith’s 23r6 Braves, is a
first-team selection.^ Teammate
WUliam Barnes, a 6-8 center, is a
second-team choice.
The two ETC teams were selected by
the head coaches of each of the five-
team conference members. Teams in
the junior college league include
Owwan, Louisburg, Lenoir, Mount
Olive and champion Southeastern (7-1)
of Whiteville.
Southeastern’s Mike Southerland,
who led the league in scoring with a 21.9
ciip, paced the first two teams by
receiving 44 points out of a possible M
games because of a fractured wrist.
Sutherland’s coach, Harry Foley,
put the icing on the cake for the
Qnderella team of the ETC by receiving
“Coach of the Year” honors from his
peers. Chowan’s Coach Smith
finished second in the balloting after
taking the honor the two previous
seasons.
Johnson of Tarboro, led second-place
Chowan (5-3) in scoring and rebouding,
tagging on stats of 15.6 and 9.0 to pull 27
votes as a first-team pick. He followed
Jeb Barlow of Louisburg and Leonza
Nickelson of Mount Olive who pulled 28
votes. Cad Bowlus, also of Mount Olive,
rounded out the first-team honor roll
with 22.
Barnes, a Greenville product,
received 17 votes from the league
coaches after he averaged nine points,
seven rebounds and shot 58.3 from the
floor.
Two Vans
Beef Up
Aged Fleet
By GREG BASSETT
The Athletic Department will soon
receive two new Dodge vans to be used
for transporting school teams. The vans
will now give the department three 15-
passenger vans that will be more
economical than the larger buses.
According to Jack Hassell, college
superintendent of buildings and
grounds, the new buses will aid
Chowan’s fleet of aging buses which
have been breaking down over the past
months and have become very costly to
operate and maintain.
The college will pay $9,200 for each
van. Hassell said he believes the school
got a “good discount” on the vehicles
which are nomudly priced between
$11,000 and $12,000.
A Dodge dealer in Aulander had the
best price for the two vehicles, Hassell
said. Dealers from Charlotte to Norfolk
were contacted about the sale.
The vans will be all white with the
name of the school painted on the side
in blue letters. The vans will also have
blue interiors, and unlike the new van
purchased last fall, the vans will have
rear seat heaters.
Hassell said the need for the new vans
evolved this spring when both
basketball teams and the wrestling
team needed to go “three different
directions at the same time.” The
college’s large bus and Ford school bus
were prone to breakdowns.
Hassell explained that the big bus, a
1964 model, suffered a blown engine and
figures are now being made to deter
mine whether it would be practical to
install a deisel engine.
The Ford school bus, a 1963, model,
could be kept and used for field trips,
Hassell observed. The largest bus,
which is used exclusively for football,
may be sold if it becomes too expensive
to repair. Hassell said it would be no
(ffoblem to rent a bus for use by the
football team.
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